Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the F.A.S. Faculty Meeting of Oct. 16, 2001. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the Faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the Dean and Faculty Council. The Dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.
From the underwater magic of the Great Barrier Reef to New Mexicos colorful mesas and the castles of Prague, some Harvard administrators expanded their vistas far beyond their office windows last year, thanks to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Administrative/Professional Prize.
Elijah Wood, the young actor currently starring as Frodo in the blockbuster film The Lord of the Rings, journeyed from Middle Earth to Harvard Yard last Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 12 and 13) to be feted by the Harvard Lampoon.
University Professor Robert Nozick, one of the late 20th century’s most influential thinkers, died on the morning of Jan. 23 at the age of 63. He had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1994.
Spalding Gray may best be known for ruthlessly blurring the line between life and art. Since 1979, he has been writing and performing confessional autobiographical monologues that plumb lifes experiences for all their irony, absurdity, and edgy intensity. Hes been compared to Anna Devere Smith, Garrison Keillor, and Anna Quindlen and called a new wave Mark Twain. Since founding and fronting the boldly experimental media and theater ensemble, the Wooster Group in lower Manhattan, he has toured with his work and appeared in feature films. The making of Roland Joffes The Killing Fields (1984) inspired Swimming to Cambodia, a monologue that Gray first performed in 1982 and made into a film in 1988. He is reviving it at Sanders Theatre this weekend.
Robert Jan Augusts hands fly across the Fisk Organs four keyboards, fingers pausing and crossing to deftly punch a button or pull out a stop. His feet dance along the pedals, playing a counterpoint to the melody. Above him, the organs pipes shimmer and boom, swell and fade as Bach trumpets across Appleton Chapel and into the Memorial Church.
Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have gained one of the first glimpses of how the bodys circadian clock – a tiny cluster of nerve cells behind the eyes – sends out the signals that control natural daily rhythms. The newly discovered pathway, reported in the Dec. 21 edition of Science, opens a long-closed door to research that could ultimately lead to new treatments for circadian disturbances such as certain sleep disorders.
The world is on the road to becoming a barren, overcrowded, and lonely place for humanity, but famed biologist Edward O. Wilson is optimistic we will alter our path and emerge better stewards of the Earth, its creatures, and by doing so, ourselves.
At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard (and viewed) a report on space planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences presented by Nancy Maull, executive dean of the faculty, and David Zewinski, associate dean of the faculty for Physical Resources and Planning.
January 1870 A statute creates and defines the Deanship of the College Faculty. History Professor Ephraim W. Gurney becomes the first incumbent this year and serves until 1876. Jan.…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 5. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Feb. 1, 2002 March 5, 2002…
The good news is that the universe will last forever. The bad news is that we will be seeing less and less of it as galaxies fade and become frozen in time.
Harvard fellow makes 2001 ‘best books’ list “How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Stanford University Press, 2001), by…
BIG seeks applicants The Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has announced the creation of the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) program, a new training program to provide…
In an era before anesthesia, antibiotics, fetal monitoring, X-rays, and genetic screening, childbirth was usually the riskiest and often the most painful experience of a woman’s life. Women frequently…
William Kaelin, a scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is among the first winners of the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York…
The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) released its final report Dec. 19, beginning a period during which President Lawrence H. Summers will review both the report and…
When Linda Norden got hired by the Fogg Art Museum as associate curator of contemporary art, she faced a challenging problem. Museums like the Fogg collect art objects, and they…
The Humanities Center at Harvard has received a $268,000 grant from the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation to help strengthen the role of humanities throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences…
Professor of Mathematics Richard Taylor has received the 2002 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in number theory. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society (AMA), the prize recognizes outstanding…
William A. Graham, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will serve as Acting Dean of the Harvard Divinity School pending the appointment of a permanent dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.
A total of 1,174 students were admitted this year under the College’s early action program, the fourth consecutive year in which the number of students admitted early has stayed roughly…
Every Saturday morning, country music gets an Ivy League shine … and Harvard goes just a little bit hillbilly. That’s when the banjos and barn-dances of Hillbilly at Harvard, one of New England’s best-loved, most respected, and longest-lived country music radio shows, take over the microphones of WHRB (95.3 FM), Harvard’s student-run radio station.
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) have found that elevated levels of specific antibodies that fight a range of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) antigens are associated with the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS).
The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its sponsorship of more than 40 spring grants for creative projects ranging from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts.
The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its sponsorship of more than 40 spring grants for creative projects ranging from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts.
The Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds have approved a $1.58 million grant to Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership to create a leadership program for school superintendents.
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